Family lunchtime classical concerts

Thu, Jun 29, 2017

NICO AND Martin are taking children on a fascinting journey Out Of The Door. The WhistleBlast Quartet will bring them on a guided tour of the best loved characters from fairy tales - this is the Galway Music Residency's Family Lunchtime Concerts.

The slave and sporting hero buried in Galway

Wed, Jun 28, 2017

HOW DID a freed slave, and the first American sporting hero, end up being buried in a pauper’s grave in Mervue? The fascinating story of Tom Molineaux will be told in a new documentary to be screened at the Galway Film Fleadh.

Tragedy that really packs a punch

Theatre Reviews Wed, Jun 28, 2017

GALWAY COMMUNITY Theatre joined forces with the Town Hall Theatre for its most ambitious show to date, Sean O’Casey’s Juno and The Paycock. It is the first time GCT have tackled one of the classics and, directed skilfully by Andrew Flynn, they did themselves proud.

In Praise of Lol - a Cure playlist

Mon, Jun 26, 2017

LOL TOLHURST, co-founder of The Cure with Robert Smith, was invovled in the creation of much of the band's finest music from their 1979 debut album Three Imaginary Boys to Disintigration in 1989. In advance of Lol coming to the Róisín Dubh to read from his insightful, often fascinating, and poignant autobiography Cured, we present a selection of key album tracks, classic singles, and one oddity, from Lol's tenure in The Cure.

'Reservoir Dogs meets medieval literature'

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

ONE OF the hottest tickets in this year’s Galway International Arts Festival is Kneehigh Theatre Company’s exhilarating production of Tristan & Yseult which runs at the Town Hall Theatre from July 18 to 22.

Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering June 2017

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

THE WRITER June Caldwell launches her debut short story collection, Room Little Darker, at the Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering, which takes place next week in the Kitchen Café of the Galway City Museum.

Selma McCormack goes Full Circle at Kenny's

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

FULL CIRCLE may be the name of a long forgotten post-Jim Morrison album by The Doors but it is also the title of an exhibition by abstract artist Selma McCormack, which is certain to make an impact when it opens tomorrow.

Patrick McDonnell @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

HE WAS Eoin McLove in Father Ted. He was one of the prime movers in Naked Camera. He is a regular at the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh, one who makes a welcome return tomorrow night.

Niamh Regan - New EP and Róisín Dubh gig

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

NIAMH REGAN, the County Galway singer-songwriter, nominated for Best Solo Female Act by Pure M magazine this year, will launch of her new EP in the Róisín Dubh next week.

Album review: Radiohead

Music Reviews Thu, Jun 22, 2017

OK COMPUTER was where Radiohead went from delivering era-defining music - The Bends - to creating an album for the ages; revealing themselves as the successors to Pink Floyd, and admitting, without saying it out loud, that they are a prog-rock band.

‘A love poem to theatre’

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

ONE OF the most acclaimed Irish plays of the last 20 years is Dublin By Lamplight, Corn Exchange’s exuberant and hilarious ‘alternative facts’ version of the founding of the Abbey Theatre.

Galway Film Fleadh short film highlights

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

FOURTEEN SHORT film programmes, featuring drama, documentary and animation, and films from Britain, Mexico, Norway, Lebanon, and the United States, will be screened at this year's Galway Film Fleadh.

'13' reasons to see an exhibition in Kinvara

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

THIRTEEN IS seen by many as an unlucky number, but for a group of GMIT artists it is a very positive number as it represents their number and is the name of their new exhibition.

Slow Place Like Home - new single, GIAF show

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

AHEAD OF their Galway International Arts Festival concert, supporting UNKLE, indie-electro trio Slow Place Like Home have released a new digital single, 'When I See You...Ice Cream' via Galway label Strange Brew Rekkids.

Anna Livia Lesbia - when it was harder to be gay in Ireland

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

THE EARLY gay rights and women's movements, as seen through the eyes of a young lesbian trying to making sense of the scary, bizarre, and sometimes downright funny world that was 1970s Ireland, is explored in a new play by a woman who has lived it all.

Geoff Whiting to play Cellar comedy club

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

BRITISH COMEDIAN Geoff Whiting - the man who gave Jimmy Carr his start - is coming to Galway to perform at The Cellar Comedy Club, which is marking its first birthday this month.

Michael O'Connor to launch new album at Town Hall

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

MICHAEL O'CONNOR, the Galway/Mayo country and folk singer-songwriter, launches his third album, Market Plaice, in the Town Hall Theatre studio on Thursday June 29 as part of the Colours Fringe Festival.

Galway Cathedral Summer Concerts 2017

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

GALWAY CATHEDRAL'S annual international summer concert series returns next month with performances by Paul Kieffer; The Choir of St Paul’s College, Hong Kong; Ansgar Wallenhorst; and an array of Galway talent.

The Curly Organ - a summer of EPs

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

THE CURLY Organ, a side project of Donal McConon, a founder member of Galway prog-folk band My Fellow Sponges, will release a slew of EPs throughout the month of July.

Haji Mike to headline world music event

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

DUB REGGAE musician, poet, academic, Haji Mike is something of a renaissance man in the dub scene, and he will be bringing his words and music to the It's A Worldwide Ting event in Galway next month.

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